I mean that’s another thing isn’t it? The guilt that the axis powers hold and their way of articulating it (Japan’s was always more…partial) is already fraying, less than 90 years later. For pretty sound geopolitical reasons, to be honest. But still. I doubt they’ll last much longer.

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“Because a financial instrument aid off a decade ago bore traces of a fragment of a previous financial instrument raised 200 years ago, we are therefore required to double the national debt for crimes none of us had any say in” makes no logical sense, sorry.

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The possibility exists that some of the compensation went directly to the slavers via bonds, or they took the compensation and bought the bonds. But yes, we have said this repeatedly

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But they weren't were they? They were paying bond payments to people who lent the government money to pay to slaveowners. Or have I misunderstood?

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But, y’know, all nations are a covenant between the dead, the living and the yet to be born. We hold something of the responsibility for what went before in the body of our nation, just as we hold something of the praise. It’s just it gets tricky when you ask me to mortgage the future for the past

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